It had been there, undisturbed, for somewhere in the region of three to four thousand years. In 1984, field clearance operations destroyed it.

The structure was a cist, a type of Bronze Age burial in which stone slabs are set upright on edge to form a compact rectangular chamber, typically just large enough to hold the remains of a single individual or a small deposit of bone and grave goods. This particular example was modest even by those standards: four slabs forming the walls, each between 0.3 and 0.4 metres long and up to 0.45 metres high, with three further slabs laid flat to pave the floor. Whether a capstone ever covered the top is not known. The landowner, working the ground during clearance, retrieved a fragment of pottery and some cremated bone from inside the ruined structure. The bone was subsequently identified as human, representing at least one adult and at least one juvenile. The pottery sherd was examined by Cleary, who reported on the find in 1985, and identified it as probably belonging to the pygmy cup category, a small ceramic type associated with Bronze Age funerary practice in Ireland and Britain, often found accompanying cremation burials. The combination of cremated bone and a pygmy cup places this burial broadly within a tradition that was widespread across Ireland during the second millennium BC, when cist burial was a common, if not universal, way of treating the dead.